“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
“There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.”
“The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.”
“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”
“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”